Example sentences of "[adj] it is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this it is often assumed that cleaning staff are familiar with the basics especially when women are employed . |
| 2 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 3 | Mourners claim grass is so high it is now hiding relatives ' gravestones |
| 4 | Well I tell you something , I think you ought to compile a letter together to somebody , and try and sort some it is n't gon na cost you nothing to write a letter ! |
| 5 | It added : ‘ It would be a tragedy if the frustrations and the hardships that the recession has caused , and for some it is still causing , if it meant that Britain threw away all the achievements of the last decade . |
| 6 | The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers ' money . |
| 7 | Request : Joan Hammell , his secretary , wrote to say : ‘ I am afraid it is not going to prove possible for Mr Kinnock to make a contribution as much as he would love to . |
| 8 | Well , much as I 'd love to stay on here , I 'm afraid it is n't going to be feasible . |
| 9 | The story of a village choir which forms the basis of the novel was Hardy 's recreation of tales of the experiences of his father and grandfather as church musicians shortly before his own birth , and as such it is clearly drawn from his deepest and happiest memories . |
| 10 | As such it is well placed at a centre point to visit all the other treasures of the region . |
| 11 | Compaction by mechanical processes involves movement by slippage between grains and the breakage , or fracture , of individual grains ; as such it is sometimes termed brittle compaction . |
| 12 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 13 | Once your water is soft it is easily acidified using peat filtration . |
| 14 | With these it is often initiated by acute tail-biting which gets out of hand ‘ and then the attacking pig or pigs continue to eat further into the back . |
| 15 | Before you buy furniture , make sure it is n't made from tropical hardwoods , unless from a sustainable source . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're sure it is n't catching ? ’ he 'd teased , once more looking at her red face . |
| 17 | We need to make sure it is well used . |
| 18 | The association also welcomed the duty of care placed on people who produce waste to make sure it is properly disposed of . |
| 19 | 2 Take the old till roll out carefully ( make sure it is not damaged , thereby losing valuable information ) . |
| 20 | It is the task of the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to make sure it is not wasted . |
| 21 | David Pickles , the BIHA secretary , said : ‘ We are determined to uphold the tremendous family image of our sport and it is the reponsibility of clubs to make sure it is not tarnished . ’ |
| 22 | If you leave it in the aircraft in the hope of a fine day , make sure it is fully charged . |
| 23 | Concrete is a good choice , but make sure it is fully cured to avoid chemicals leaching into the water and seal it with a polypaint sold for ponds . |
| 24 | Because the knot lies flat it is often used in bandaging . |
| 25 | After all it is well known that every type of electromagnetic effect is carried by photons , and we have seen that photons can not escape from within a black hole . |
| 26 | If there is a common culture at all it is usually expressed as part of the public world of government and state . |
| 27 | The new government , with strong Tsarist influence , is pretending to fight a war to defend the republic when all it is really defending is its aim of conquest and profit . |
| 28 | Although theft is illegal it is often regarded as normal and acceptable practice when an individual ‘ borrows ’ materials from his or her place of work for personal use — such as stationery , or makes 'phone calls on an office telephone . |
| 29 | I thought well that 's fair comment cos there 's people 's houses I 'd stay away from cos I do n't like the wives , so I mean , you know , that 's , I do n't go round , but the thing is she 's been gone about what three year now , four year or something or however long it is why do n't she come now ? |
| 30 | When a report is long it is sometimes split into two volumes , one with factual findings and a second whose contents deal entirely with discussions and recommendations . |